How to grow 2x in life? 5 practical steps to get there.

This article is purposefully prepared to share the knowledge to young professionals or students proceeding for career. I would love to have feedback and suggestion over and above this which can help professionals to get better growth in career and live a happy life.

Most of us completed the study and further we have gone for different career options whatever we have decided to pursue. Professional life some of the people have grown well and succeeded in their carrier reach to a higher level at the very shortest. Where is there a set of people who struggle from beginning till the end of their professional career and could not able to achieve whatever they wish for? Now question is what was the basic difference between these two people? One has succeeded, whereas another has just survived.

To know the fact, I interact with several people of the industry and understand from them, the following 5 steps helped them to grow faster than others:

1.    The people who got multiple growth in their life share, the first and foremost reason behind their success was the internal drive towards their success. Every such person who has achieved what he wants in life, was carrying a specified dream/goal, which was driving him day & night to deliver their best at every moment of life. They were fully charged for their entire life and they never think to stop or rest until they achieve what they wish for.

2.    One thing is sure when they started their career, they were more focused on learning on the subject matter where they were looking to proceed. To make them are learning more effective they invested time, energy, and their effort to gain something new every day. At the same time, they were proactive to explore working with different people, different locations & different functions of their domain/industry. Having more variety of exposure has given them the edge over other people with similar roles but lesser exposure.

3.    Here is another biggest difference between these people were, the successful person was always under mentoring or guided by another successful person of the industry, within or outside of the organization. This exercise helped them to understand the upcoming difficulties well in advance and they could prepare themselves to overcome such future challenges. Also this saves enough time to fight with known failure.

4.    Another great difference noticed, these successful people were always a good teacher/coach for their colleague or team member. The purpose behind this was to evaluate their learning and experiment with their knowledge to help others for getting success. In return they received good support and corporation from their colleagues, subordinates, or even from the seniors. This step works in their favor to avoid resistance while they are working towards their goal.

5.    Last but the most important point was their commitment towards their goal. During their entire journey when they find they are not moving ahead as per their plan due to some external reasons; they always try to change the path rather than keep fighting with the challenges of waiting for the situation to improve. Let me give me a simple example that's assume spite of all your hard work your superiors are not convinced with your outcome or management is not acknowledging your achievements, its time to take a call. Either you should speak to suitable authority, if not then change the role, function, or even organization if needed. Remember you are the only person responsible for your GOAL, hence the major decision of life will be yours only.

These 5 steps are my take from my experience of 23 years and my interaction with the several people across the industry. Even the same has worked for me to date and I hope this will help me to grow further in life. I know you can have a different point of view for life and your career, that's perfectly fine. I appreciate it and would love to see your feedback on this topic.

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Sunil Singh (Career Mentor & Coach)

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